Iran women’s activist jailed for five years: lawyer
…Hana Abdi, a 22-year-old woman from Iran’s Kurdistan province, was accused of “illegal gathering with the intention of committing a crime against the nation’s security”, lawyer Mohammad Sharif told Reuters by telephone…
…An unidentified Iranian judge was in December quoted by an official news agency as saying Abdi and another woman arrested in a Kurdish region a few months earlier were accused of being members of a rebel group, PJAK, and of involvement in bombings.
The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) is an Iranian offshoot of the separatist Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) movement that is fighting neighboring Turkey…
